Honest Illusion

Yesterday, I as was stepping out of Penn Station on my way to work, I noticed that the woman walking a few steps ahead of me appeared, from the rear at least, rather pretty.  And as we started to walk up 8th Avenue, it seemed that our routes to work overlapped, so I got to follow her, without actual following her.    This reminder me of ...

With the pending appointment of Judge Sonia Sotomayor, someone pointed out that if she is approved, there will have been in 120 years, 111 Supreme Court Justices, of whom, only three were women and only two were African American, with all the rest being white men.   On the other hand:   In the past 80 years, The Academy of Motion Picture ...

I really should bring the subject matter here back around to computers..... Lately (if you consider the last year & a half ''lately''), I've been working on a project on my laptop using VisualStudio (usually on the train to work).  Every now & then some action (like, say, highlighting a couple lines and pressing Ctrl-C to copy them), ...

I just read an article over on CodeProject on creating a small application to quickly go to a Shrinkster.com url, and as I was reading it, a simpler method occurred to me. Backing up a bit, Shrinkster.com is a site which holds a gaint database of web addresses.  If you wanted to give out a web page link on, say, an podcast, where you won't ...

Merry Christmas. Attending midnight mass last night, (message delayed a bit due to technical difficulties) I was reminded of what is clearly one of the dumbest Christmas traditions practiced by many.   Many (probably most) Christians will display a nativity scene along with their Christmas decorations, and (here's the dumb part) a large ...

Like most Americans (and many others around the world), I've spent a lot of time the passed few weeks shopping for Christmas presents.  Actually, I didn't spend that much until this week, which was part of the problem, so this week was a panic. Anyway, most of the gifts I was buying were for my many nieces & nephews.  The problem here is ...

To follow up on my earlier message on life expectancies, we should talk about the other confusing aspect of them:  Why are they sometimes ridiculously low.  For example, the present life expectancy for someone living in the USA is 77, which you'd think is perfectly reasonable, but then you hear that the LE of someone living in 1900 was only ...

After my messages about Rock Star: Supernova, I guess now I can talk about the other reality show I watch, NBC's ''Biggest Loser'', which takes a group a overweight people, and puts them through a regiment of diet & exercise.  The winner is the one who loses the most weight. I like it because it's not just about people doing stupid ...

I hate posts which are just links to other pages (which is actually not true --- I do like reading other people's blogs which are just links --- I just think it's cheating when I do it)   But this site  has a built in reason to blog a link to it (He's trying to measure how fast the links spread), and I gives me a reason to write a new blog ...

Many years ago, I came up with this brain teaser.  Since It don't recall ever trying it on anyone, I'm not sure how difficult it is.  So, I figured I'd inflict it on you, my loving readers.   Everything follows this rule, unless it's foreign, scientifical or just plain weird. What is it?